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Kontrola
Hi Everybody,
I have an Epson Stylus Pro 5000. It has 6 color head and uses
additional Light Cyan and Light Magenta colors.
Because I run out of ink I tried to find some local Ink sellers and to
refill the existing ink cassetes (6$ against 60$ for a new cassete).
For CMYK it was sort of easy, but not for the light color ones. I live
in country where Internet shopping is not very easy and where the
shipping adds a lot to the bill, so I am looking for some manual way
to prepare the Light colors. I know that it sounds a little stupid and
that the inks have special chemical and color properties, but think
that my question is caused by irresistable desire to know and to try
everithing by hand
My little knowledge tells me that I will need the XYZ values for the
light colors, some tool to measure and compare them, and also the
chemical solution (like distiled water) which I can add to the ink to
make it lighter. The first problem is that I dont have spectrometer
(or I can find, but difficult) and the second - there is almost
nothing left from the Light colors in my printer so it is very
difficult to print anything and to measure it.
Other way to make it, which goes in my mind, is to use a magic
proportion recipe. As I learned from the first crash of my car, the
people use to make car paints by mixing standard paints in proportions
and to match your color so you dont have to paint the whole car. And
knowing the proportion, if you make it again after one year (well, or
after one week in some bad Murfy's case) you save some money for the
preparing of the exactly the same paint like is your car at the
moment.
So, can anybody tell me some proportions for preparing Lyght
Cyan\Magenta or at least - some exact XYZ(or Lab) color values for
C,M,Y,K,LC,LM of Epson Stylus 5000? Also any internet resourse about 6
color printing will be interesting to me (I know that there is also
CMYKOG...).
Kontrola, Bus 280
I have an Epson Stylus Pro 5000. It has 6 color head and uses
additional Light Cyan and Light Magenta colors.
Because I run out of ink I tried to find some local Ink sellers and to
refill the existing ink cassetes (6$ against 60$ for a new cassete).
For CMYK it was sort of easy, but not for the light color ones. I live
in country where Internet shopping is not very easy and where the
shipping adds a lot to the bill, so I am looking for some manual way
to prepare the Light colors. I know that it sounds a little stupid and
that the inks have special chemical and color properties, but think
that my question is caused by irresistable desire to know and to try
everithing by hand
My little knowledge tells me that I will need the XYZ values for the
light colors, some tool to measure and compare them, and also the
chemical solution (like distiled water) which I can add to the ink to
make it lighter. The first problem is that I dont have spectrometer
(or I can find, but difficult) and the second - there is almost
nothing left from the Light colors in my printer so it is very
difficult to print anything and to measure it.
Other way to make it, which goes in my mind, is to use a magic
proportion recipe. As I learned from the first crash of my car, the
people use to make car paints by mixing standard paints in proportions
and to match your color so you dont have to paint the whole car. And
knowing the proportion, if you make it again after one year (well, or
after one week in some bad Murfy's case) you save some money for the
preparing of the exactly the same paint like is your car at the
moment.
So, can anybody tell me some proportions for preparing Lyght
Cyan\Magenta or at least - some exact XYZ(or Lab) color values for
C,M,Y,K,LC,LM of Epson Stylus 5000? Also any internet resourse about 6
color printing will be interesting to me (I know that there is also
CMYKOG...).
Kontrola, Bus 280